Long Now Labs picks three prototypes including a thermodynamic clock for LLMs
begusgasper · x · 2026-10-24
Long Now, in partnership with the Protocol Institute, announces the first Long Now Labs awardees selected from 370+ submissions to build 'Book of Time' prototypes.
Awardees include Sarah Friend's 'Thermodynamic Clock for LLMs,' testing whether giving models access to different experiences of time alters their behavior; Matthew Caren and Anastasha Rachel Gunawan's 'Lagu Hantu,' an instrument installation that remembers everyone who has played it; and Eirini Malliaraki's 'One Billion Clocks,' tracking soil metabolic time. Nina Begus will lead the Epistemic Cycles Lab, studying the history of information technologies to identify mechanisms for preserving and organizing knowledge in the AI age.
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